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[Reverend Shozen Nakayama of Tenrikyo of Japan visiting Los Angeles, California, August 10, 1951]
[Reverend Shozen Nakayama of Tenrikyo of Japan visiting Los Angeles, California, August 10, 1951]
[Reverend Shozen Nakayama of Tenrikyo of Japan visiting Los Angeles, California, August 10, 1951]

[Reverend Shozen Nakayama of Tenrikyo of Japan visiting Los Angeles, California, August 10, 1951]

Date1951
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.139
DescriptionReverend Shozen Nakayama of Tenrikyo Buddhist faith from Japan visits Los Angeles for the first time, California, August 10, 1951. Includes Nakayama in a light-colored suit with four men in dark suits disembarking an airplane at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), holding Tenrikyo flags and two wrapped bundles; and Nakayama with a Reverend (back left) from a local church in Boyle Heights, east 1st Street and Saratoga Street.
;2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

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